THE ROAD

THE ROAD and the END by Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

(This poem talks about how change is all around us and all encompassing . We should embrace the change as we go along the road put before us.)

I shall foot it

                                                 Down the roadway in the dusk

Where shapes of hunger wander

                                                                And the fugitives of pain go by

I shall foot it

                                                  In the silence of the morning

See the night slur into dawn

                                                                  Hear the slow great winds arise

Where tall trees flank the way

And shoulder toward the sky............

The broken boulders by the road

                                Regret shall be the gravel under foot.

I shall watch for slim birds swift of wing

                                 That go where wind and ranks of thunder

Drive the wild processionals of rain

                                                                         The dust...........

of the travelled road

                             Shall touch my hands and face..........

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